Why is it ok to represent Polish history of WWII inaccurately in the film "Our Fathers, Our Mothers"?

Thanks mate - I'd love to, but I'm in AUSTRALIA and would prefer your take on what the Germans said. Thanks in advance.

That prevents you from visiting the web sites of the Polish state archives and browse the content yourself? What kind of WWW do you have at home? Bongos? :)

Thankfully, Poland has been providing tens of thousands of books, magazines and documents online in both Polish and German over the past five years or so, and the collections are growing fast. They are finally fighting the old post WW2 commie propaganda in the heads of people and are developing a much more balanced approach to Polish history - showing both negative AND positive aspects of the Prussian, Austrian (and occasionally Russian) times for example. Which makes genealogical research much much easier as well.

I just really struggle to take you seriously when you say things like this mate, given your challenge ages ago to the effect that someone should have compiled a list of German civilians 'murdered' by Poles at the beginning of WW2 when the premise to your challenge ended up being totally flawed and one-sided and another prime piece of dissimulation. In essence, you seem to put yourself out as someone who is all for balance in history yet fail to practice it yourself.

This too especially when you conflate two untruths by suggesting to the effect that Poles weren't balanced in their views by virtue of Commie propaganda til The Archive stepped in and made them develop a much more balanced view. I think it goes over your head as to how patronising that sounds, quite apart from the fact that it is incorrect.

Unfortunately, you and your nationalistic Polonia ilk will never ever admit that Poland has progressed in the right direction. Instead you are stuck in the WW2 era with all the old enemies in your head. I've said it on various occasions already: move on, don't live in the past all the time. Anyway, I'm not doing your homework. Visit the online archives and read up yourself - if you are able to understand Polish or German that is, of course.

On a personal note: I'm sure you are a nice guy, but sometimes you really come across like an arrogant twat. Me too, I know ... :)

And let me guess, most of the authors of those books have some connections to Gazeta Wyborcza, like Gros?


Is that for real, or are you joking? The only positive aspect of partitions was that the people of Wielkopolska united against germanization. Negative aspects were that our language and culture were being slowly killed in non-polish schools, german quasi-banks were claiming polish land and austrian administration closed over 89% of polish-owned mines and production companies. Read "Polskie logos a ethos" by professor Feliks Koneczny for nice statistical compilations of damages and hardships that Poland and Poles had to suffer under partitions. The same author is also listing out all the flaws of polish ideology and political thinking of those times, so you can't claim he isn't objective. More so, prof. Koneczny lived under partitions and later in II Rzeczpospolita, so he has a better overview of the situation than today's historians.

Have at least the courtesy to read the thread before posting here ***. We were talking about historic books from pre WW1.